We Found Wonderland: An Art Show by Karie Luidens
 

Ketchup City Creative
612 Main St, Pittsburgh

December 6 – 14, 2025

Saturday – Sunday:
12 noon – 6 p.m.

Monday – Wednesday:
Closed

Thursday – Friday:
4 p.m. – 8 p.m.

“We Found Wonderland” is a mixed-media art exhibition that reimagines the lyrics of Taylor Swift through the lens of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Explore a madcap mix of fiber art and flowers, glass and glitter, drawings and paintings.

(Best believe you can come bejeweled.)


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Curious about my creative process? (Curiouser and curiouser!) Check out my essay on the show for Pittsburgh’s own Petrichor Magazine.

She Is Large, She Contains Multitudes

by Karie Luidens
Petrichor Magazine
December 2, 2025

… In developing this show, I wanted to interrogate Swift’s poetry with the same seriousness I brought to my thesis on Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. However, since Swift works in an era saturated with imagery—since she is so very strategic about the aesthetics of her albums, and yet so unable to control how the media will portray her in the world beyond—it felt only right to do so not just through the written word but through a wide array of visual mediums. …

Read the whole essay

Join us for extra festivities on
Saturday, December 13, 12 noon – 6 p.m.!

Swifties will celebrate our favorite singer-songwriter’s 36th birthday.

Those of us not born on December 13 can raise a teacup to our own very merry un-birthdays.

Everyone is invited to enjoy crafts, costumes, music, and refreshments throughout the gallery’s open hours!


 

For even more visuals, follow me down the rabbit hole on Instagram.